Following the technique by the letter, he first drew the spirit energy from the surroundings and then slowly guided it to the supposed location of the first minor meridian of the first major meridian.
With no suspense, he directly found it without a problem. Then the hard part came, trying to force this spirit energy into the minor meridian. At first, his attempts were met with slight resistance, but try after try brought this resistance to a negligible level as the spirit energy finally started to enter the meridian little by little.
Suddenly, Lingtian felt some pain coming from the minor meridian location, and as if a thirsty beast was woken up, it started to absorb the spirit energy he absorbed earlier like crazy. This lasted just for some minutes before stopping.
"Hahaha, two weeks! All it took is two weeks to open my first minor meridian. Hahaha, great! This is really great, and this without using any external aid!" a hearty laugh broke out from Lingtian after opening his first minor meridian.
He was thrilled and ecstatic. How could he not be? The average cultivator would need at least six months to do what he did in just two weeks. He now understood how much he underestimated how powerful a special physique can be.
"I should calm down first. I need resources urgently, and I can't wait any more. I should do some work for the Formation Association for the time being. Last time, I saw that there is a lot of tasks that I can do." After laughing like a maniac for some time, Lingtian got a hold of himself and collected his thoughts.
From that day onward, his life became really busy. He would cultivate all night, head to the association in the morning, and do tasks all day long. He chose simple tasks that didn't take long, a day at most, as he still wanted some time to cultivate.
The days became weeks, and weeks became months, and he was getting used to this routine. The feeling of his cultivation progress and the rise of his wealth was an extremely satisfying experience.
But not long after he started taking tasks and made some essence crystals, he found a problem, a problem that basically has no solution.
No matter how many resources or pills he took, his cultivation speed remained constant, one minor meridian every two weeks, no more, no less. At first, he thought that there was a problem with the resources he consumed.
But after a simple check, he knew that this wasn't the problem at all. After days of research and trials, he finally found the reason. It was actually his Special Physique, the Mystic Soul Physique.
He found out that the reason for his monstrous cultivation speed was due to the fact that when he uses his physique to absorb spirit energy, it gets automatically purified and then refined.
He didn't notice this before because the process was happening naturally, so he thought everyone was the same. Only after he found the anomaly in his cultivation, resulting in the inability of resources to speed up his cultivation, did he start to notice.
And with the knowledge gained after buying some books from the Insight Pavilion and what he learned from the association's inner library, he became fully aware of what was going on.
Due to his Physique's ability, his spirit energy was pure and dense, so he didn't need other resources to open meridians, as the only thing his Physique can't help him with is the quantity. But the quantity was never a problem, as to open the meridians, quantity didn't play a decisive factor.
He understood that this two-week limit was because of his high-grade spirit root limitations. If he had a perfect-grade spirit root, he could open a meridian every 4 to 6 days, in his estimation, which was quite the terrifying notion.
He knew that his Special Physique advantage will fade, or at least become much less apparent in the Nascent Soul Realm and above, but he didn't really care. What he wanted was to be a Nascent Soul cultivator as fast as possible, and that's exactly what he is going to do. He will think about other stuff when he gains a foothold in this vast world first.
After coming to this realization, he stopped using external aid and cultivated normally while doing as many jobs as he can in these six months. And finally, today, he opened the ninth and the last minor meridian of the first major meridian.
Focusing all his mind and circulating the Spirit Foundation technique to the extreme, he started to tackle the first major meridian. Opening this meridian took him more than he thought, as he stayed in this state for nearly two months before finally succeeding.
The moment the final meridian was opened, a huge pressure exploded from his body. He estimated that his spirit energy capacity had gone up 30 percent, and the might of his spirit power more than 50 percent.
Taking out a sword he prepared beforehand, he tried to use the Nine Swords Dance to control it. Previously, even though he studied this martial art formation many times, it was just theoretically as he didn't have a major meridian open to use it.
But now he could. After some tries, he only controlled the sword to fly for some moment before falling down.
"This is much harder than I anticipated, but no matter, I will be able to master it after more training, as I already got the basics in place," Lingtian thought as his gaze landed on the sword on the ground.
"The first step is completed. Now, with the 1670 spirit crystals I accumulated, I should try to get the Runic Fundamentals book from that alchemist. From my inquiries, I already found out that he is just a one-star alchemy master and at the beginner stage of the Foundation Realm, just like me, albeit with three major meridians opened. But I don't know how many minor meridians he has opened for each one." As he thought at this point, a cold light flashed through Lingtian's eyes. He was hell-bent on getting this book, either by peaceful transaction or forceful means...